Duterte Green
by Daniel Duterte
(ebArtemis410)
Toys R Us in Raleigh, NC
10/12/2001
About 30 or so participants
Art has returned and is back with a new deck. After
another week of playtesting and a few tweaks, I decided to debut my Erika's
Victreebel deck:
Duterte Green 1.0 (for lack of a better
name)
4 Erika's Bellsprout 50 HP (Gym Heroes)
3 Erika's Weepinbell 70 HP (Gym Heroes)
3 Erika's Victreebel (Gym Heroes)
3 Cleffa (Neo Genesis)
2 Murkrow (Neo Genesis)
2 Rocket's Scyther (Gym Heroes)
2 Smeargle (Neo Discovery)
1 Elekid (Neo Genesis)
14 Grass Energy
4 Darkness Energy (Neo
Genesis)
4 Professor Elm (Neo Genesis)
3 Erika's Maids (Gym Heroes)
3 Focus Band (Neo Genesis)
3 Chaos Gym (Gym Challenge)
3 Celadon City Gym (Gym Heroes)
2 Nightly Garbage Run (Team Rocket)
2 Double Gust (Neo Genesis)
2 Misty's Wrath (Gym Heroes)
This deck is loaded with little strategies and combos.
You try to get some Erika's Victreebel's out while you attack with something
like Rocket's Scyther, Erika's Weepinbell, or Erika's Victreebel. This
deck can probably beat any deck except Fires. Basic math: Lone Totodile +
(Erika's Bellsprout, Darkness, loads of search/drawing, or a combo of all) = 3
points. When playing Fires, you have to attack with Erika's Weepinbell
with the status effects and have a Smeargle ready to go with 1 Energy on it
ready to Sketch. If you can lock a Cleffa with Murkrow and get a Chaos Gym
out, that'll help even more, especially once they burn all their Double
Gusts. I figured this deck has lots more strategies than Feraligatr, which
is probably why I'd play it.
I go to the tournament and I see anti-Feraligatr all over the
place, ie, GRASS. I wish I had the cards to build a Fires deck -_- So
anyway, the tournament's about to start, let's go!
Round 1 vs. Dave Messinger (G/W Erika's
Victreebel)
This was extremely slow, we spent the game building up our
bench and sapping each other's Victreebels. I was up a prize and we had
like, 3 minutes to go. I wasn't stalling but I wasn't in a hurry
either. I managed to power up a Rocket's Scyther, and had two tries on
Fragrence Trap and got it, and pulled up a Wooper and KO'd it, which was all I
needed. I'll take the time win.
Record: 1-0 (2 points)
Round 2 vs. Brian Friedlander (W
Feraligatr)
I thought he was playing Fires and that I was screwed, but I
saw a Water energy on the bottom of his deck, and thought this would be an easy
match. But geez, I couldn't draw much Energy when I needed it! I did
get an Erika's Weepinbell to supress a Feraligatr and a Chaos Gym for him to get
through. We were hardly getting any KO's and it was pretty much a Babies
battle. We took it to time, crike.
Record: 1-0-1 (3 points)
Round 3 vs. Some n00b (G
Dratini/Zubat)
Um, this was some newbie, Rocket's Scyther took care of him
=\
Record: 2-0-1 (6 points)
Round 4 vs. Ryan Byrd (G Erika's
Victreebel)
Well, I was getting crap and didn't get any Erika's Maids or
anything, and he was getting through all the Chaos Gym flips, and he basically
got a Victreebel and Knocked out my weak basics
Record: 2-1-1 (6 points)
Round 5 vs. David Duterte, my bro (F
Tyranitar/Umbreon)
This was a win, I got my Erika's Victreebel powered and out
turn 3 and a Chaos Gym in play. He wasn't drawing good stuff and I cleaned
him.
Record: 3-1-1 (9 points)
One loss isn't anything to complain about, ties don't really
affect you that much in the DCI.... I hope (^_^;;) I
ended up getting 3rd in 11-14 which earned me my like, 4th Happy Birthday
Pikachu (What's this, a new deck idea? >=D) I need to
tweak this deck for the Sunday Waldenbooks tournament, maybe another Misty's
Wrath or Maids, can't get a 4th Cleffa.
Props And Slops
- Props to
Jeff for organizing the tournament
- Props to Jim for judging
- Props to my dad for driving me, my bro, Rai, and his
bro
- Props to Toys R Us for hosting our tournaments
- Props to Mike B, I think you went undefeated
- Props to Rai and Ryan for going 4-1
- Props to Modified because the elusive Rock-Paper-Scizzors
triangle DOES exist!
- Props to Brass instruments
- Props to Stephanie because she 0wnz meh
- Props to the people from NC going up north to invade the
Maryland QT this weekend, go 0wn!
- Props to AzN pride
- General props to the players at the tournament: me and Jim
were talking about how the tournaments let the younger players or the newer
players see what cards are good and learn how to become players, and this
was evident by the fact that it was becoming less common for there to be an
undefeated player, tournaments are good for these kinds of
things.
- Slops to the Civil War
for brothers killin' brothers (RAI ;\)
- Slops to me for my lame skateboarding skills and slipping
off and having it fly into a woman sitting on the floor; ma'am, if you're
reading this, I'm soooo sorry! (^_^;;)
- Slops to Toys R Us for taking Tony Hawk out
of the N64 and putting some stupid arcade classics thing
- Slops to Brian for being
a freak and forcing ties against 2 Erika's Victreebel decks
with his Feraligatr!!! Crazy!
- Slops to the people from Raleigh who don't
give me slops, mainly Jake "n00b" Negley
- Slops to Daniel
Duterte
- Slops to Duke
- Slops to cheese, it's bad for you, and bad for the
game
- Slops to w33dl3
Um, I think that's enough Props and Slops
^_^;; See you this Sunday at Waldenbooks!
"If there's a door, we go in. If
there's something we can break, we break it. And in the end we blow the
place to smithereens!" - Selphie Tilmett, Final Fantasy 8
(go heels)